Image
Category
Collection
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Etching of an electrically powered garden

1755

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Clarke's Hydrometer (c. 1755)

1755

Cutter, Alert

1755

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Model diving bell with 12 sinking weights

before 1753

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Cutter, Alert

1755

Watch movement with remontoir and two balance springs by Thomas Mudge

1755

Model of Persian wheel with chain of pots

1754

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

Two oil paintings of armed Cutter "Alert" (1753-4) each in gilt frames (bow and stern views)

1753-1754

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Tubes for the whirling table

1753

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Circular bronze medal

1754

Silver medal to commemorate the opening of the theatre of the Surgical Society

1753

Medal, silver, obverse strike only

1676; 1840-1865

Medal, bronze, commemorating L.J.M.

1755

Copy of Musschenbroek's Pyrometer (Dilatometer), 1700-1731.

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Model: submersible brass mesh cage

before 1753

Combined level & clinometer, German, 1755

1755

Carpenter's sliding joint-rule by I Trafford

1772

Bronze Axehead from France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Bronze Spearhead without Shaft, European, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Flint Knife and Scraper, Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Bronze Chisel-head, Britanny, France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Bronze Adze with Modern Wooden Handle, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Twelve German jetons, 16th century.

1501-1600; 1978

Arithmetical medal and numerical pocket piece

1753

Two wooden printing blocks

1800-1600

Wilson screw barrel microscope (brass) in fishskin case with accessories

1753

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Boxfoot microscope with ball-socketed pillar

1755

Cast of a Saxon Sundial, original at Kirkdale Church, Yorkshire

1935-1958 (reproduction); 1055-1064 CE (original)

Pile-driver driven by a paddle wheel, 1754.

1754

Microscope (dated 1754)

1754

John Bristow

1754

New and Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: 'Turning'

1754

New and Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: 'Facing Hat'

1754

New and Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: 'Dye-house'

1754

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

A Chain Bridge

1753